Canberra Symphony Orchestra Magazine

A glint of light on the horizon. A first spot of rain. Clearing and creating space for something new, and a chance to reset at any moment. Possibility is an ever-present source.

Breadth and flowing lyricism immediately strike the attention in the memorable first subject. In fact, as with other memorable themes of his, it took Beethoven some effort to fashion its final form, which combines spontaneity and inevitability.

‘I was walking along one morning,’ Brahms said. ‘And as I came to this spot the sun shone out and with it this theme.’

Witold Lutosławski was one of the most significant voices in Polish music in the twentieth century.

rest #7 celebrates new music, with two exclusively Australian concert programs featuring world premieres from Deborah Cheetham AO and Rhyan Clapham a.k.a. DOBBY. This issue also includes an interview with returning guest pianist Kristian Chong.

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“The debt to Beethoven is evident in the dramatic opening of the first movement, alongside a lightness of foot that is all Schubert.”

“Boulanger was making the most of student life when she wrote this piece…that exuberance infuses every note.”

Composed over just eight days in 1960, Malcolm Williamson described the piece as ‘an overtly Australian work aiming at spontaneity and vigour rather than profundity.’

“With the Eroica the symphony as a genre ceased to be a diversion, it demanded serious attention…capable of expressing ideals, of speaking for as well as to humanity.”